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Package delivery firm Tuffnells Parcels Express has been fined after one of its drivers sustained fatal crush injuries when he became trapped between a lorry tractor and a trailer in the West Midlands.

Gig economy companies have been urged to reduce the intense pressure on self-employed taxi drivers and couriers as this may increase the risk of being involved in a collision, a study by University College London (UCL) has found.

A bus driver who was reading a time duty card while speeding on a stretch of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway in Cambridge has been sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment after he lost control of the vehicle, injuring five passengers. The sentence has been suspended for 12 months and the driver must also pay £2,000 costs.